While they lay there, and while some one in Washington knew that they were there, a court martial in that city hurriedly convened, found John Sprague guilty of murder, desertion, and treason, and the evening dispatches from Washington state that John Sprague is to be shot a week from Friday in a hollow square, in which a company of the Caribees is to do the shooting.

If we attempted this sort of explanation, we'd be lucky indeed to get through the affair without being tried by general court-martial for lying.

One of the most interesting things I saw in 1873, just before my marriage, was the court-martial of Marshal Bazaine for treachery at Metzgiving up his army and the city without any attempt to break through the enemy's lines, or in fact any resistance of any kind.

In the fall of 1870, while I was a witness in a court martial at

We found, at the occupation, the record of the court-martial on the German naval officer responsible for the failure of the plan.

The immediate cause was the punishment of eighty-five troopers of the 3d Light Cavalry, who had refused to use the obnoxious cartridges, and had been sentenced by a native court-martial to ten years' imprisonment.

"My qualities," he says, "were much more oratorical and martial than poetical; no one had the least notion that I should subside into poesy."

It looked as little martial as possible but for the stern look in the eyes of even the commonest of them.

And yet the air was martial with banner and with shout.

Organisation of a court-martial under the presidence of Rossel, chief officer of the staff.

It is not in the interest of the Germans to save them, and no check is being put on Jemal the Great to hinder him from assisting starvation and typhus to ravage the country, and supplementing their deadly work by court-martial without trial.

Whoever led the cavalry to battle, I reaffirm has forfeited his head, And to court-martial herewith order him.

But persons released from arrest, under the provisions of this article, may be tried, whenever the exigencies of the service shall permit, within 12 months after such release from arrest: Provided, That in time of peace no person shall, against his objection, be brought to trial before a general court-martial within a period of five days subsequent to the service of charles upon him.

Adhemar sent for some monks from Cluni to come to Limoges, lodged them secretly near his palace, repaired to the abbey of St. Martial after having had the chapter convoked, and called upon the monks to proceed at once to the election of a new abbot.